Unscramble BURGS and you have 30 words, BURGS itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 8 points: GRUBS. The best shorter words score 7: 4 of them, BUGS, GRUB and BURG included. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BURGS split into 2 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 14 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of BURGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with BU · ending in GS · all 5-letter words
The meaning of BURGS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. BURGS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 30) | 17 | 30 | 17 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GUBS, BRUS, GUB, BRU, GURS, GUR, GUS, SUG, UGS, GU, SUR, UG and 1 more, 13 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of BURGS and one more.